Railway-tie



(No Model.)

A. H. AMES.

RAILWAY TIE.

No. 391,999. Patented Oct 30, 188-8..

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ADDISON H. AMES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RA] LWAY-TI E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,999, dated October 30, 1888.

Application filed May 11, 1888. Serial No. $13,551. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Annrson ll. Aims, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railway Ties,- and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apportains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in railway-ties.

The object is to provide a strong, lasting, and comparativelyinexpensive tie, which may be readily placed under the rails, which will. prevent the track from spreading, will hold the rails securely in place, will tend to prevent the accumulation of water on the roadbed, will require but little ballast to hold it firmly in place, will cause no delay to the running of trains in repairing the track, and one, also, which may be easily manufactured at a very low initial cost.

WVith these ends in view my invention con-- sists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved tie. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal. vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section through one of the triangular anchors.

A A represent a pair of similar anchors constituting the opposite ends of the tie, and serving as an efficient means whereby the tie is compactly embedded in the ground or other material. These anchors are composed of metal, and consist simply of a triangular or V-shaped top, a, and integral rectangularlyspreading or outwardly-slanting sides I), the object of which construction is apparent, since the amount of ballasting necessary is diminished. Rigidly secured to the tops of these anchors, or formed integral therewith, if desired, are the metallic bars 0, forming the body of the ties. The preferred dimensions of these bars is about eight and a half inches wide and three-fourths of an inch thick. Of course the length, width, and thickness will vary with the gage of the road and demands of service; but ordinarily about eight and a half feet in length meetsthedemauds, Whennotintegral with the anchors, the bar is bolted or riveted to the tops of the anchors, with the smaller ends of the latter pointing toward each other and about four feet apart.

Midway between the anchors a shoe, D, is rigidly secured to the under side of the body 0 of the tie This may be a block of metal, and itis customary for it to be a \I-shaped piece of metal secured at each end to the bar.

A pair of chairs, E, are rigidly secured by bolts, rivets, or other means to the ties, at suitable intervals apart, one to look upon the outer flange of one rail and upon the inner flange of the other rail. Removable chairs E are adapted to lock on the flanges of the rails opposite the fixed chairs, and the greater the weight on the rails the more the top of the rail inclines to the center of the track.

To place one of the tics in position, the removable chairs E are taken off and the tie is inserted endwise beneath the rails and between adjacent ties until the fixed chairs are in position to bite upon the flanges of the rails. The removable chairs are then placed in posi tion and bolted on the tics. tamped in the usual fashion about the anchors and the shoe and body of the tie.

From the construction, and particularly the shape of parts and bearings, itis evident that neither an upward or endwise movement of the tie can possibly take place, as the rails are firmly held to the required gage, and, owing to the construction of the tie and bearings, the spreading of the track is an impossibility.

From practical tests many advantages over other tics have been noted, and some of these are, to wit: the tie affords a permanent road bed with the use of about one-half the ballast required for other ties, which ballast may be of heavy or light material; no water can collect upon the track, and the construction of the tie and its bearings prevents the spreading of rails, the getting out of line of the track, and the possibility of broken rails in cold weather.

It is evident that slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention; hence I do not wish to limit myself to the particular construction herein set forth; but,

Ballasting is then Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-'-- I 1. Ihe combination, with the anchors consisting of the flat triangular-shaped plates having outwardly-inclined depending flanges, of the body connecting the top plates of the anchors and a shoe attached to the lower side of the body.

2. The combination, with the body of a tie, a V-shaped anchor secured to the ends of said body, said anchors having spreading rectangular sides, and a V-shaped shoe secured to the lower side of the tie midway between the anchors, of fixed and removable chairs connected [5 with the tie, substantially as set forth.

In testimonywhereofI havesigned thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnosses.

ADDISON H. AMES.

Witnesses:

J NO. HAMPTON BARNES, FERREE BRIN'roN. 

